4.6 million

The study, which used data from 2015, said that estimate “is more than twice as high as estimates reported in 2002, the last time a nationally representative survey assessed this.”

27

That’s how many states have some form of CAP laws, or child access prevention laws, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. In some of those states, parents can be criminally liable if minors access their guns.